DIE Veneris, 11 Maii.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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Epus. Dunelm. & Ds. Crew.
Epus. Bangor.
Epus. Norwic.
Epus. Bristol.
Epus. Meneven. |
Ds. Custos Magni Sigilli.
Dux Newcastle, C. P. S.
Dux Buckingham, Senescallus.
Dux Grafton.
Dux Beaufort.
Dux Bolton.
Dux Hamilton.
March. Dorchester.
Comes Pembroke.
Comes Dorset.
Comes Bridgewater.
Comes Northampton.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Stamford.
Comes Winchilsea.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Cardigan.
Comes Anglesey.
Comes Carlisle.
Comes Jersey.
Comes Wharton.
Comes Poulet.
Comes Cholmondeley.
Comes Home.
Comes Loudoun.
Comes Orkney.
Viscount Say & Seale.
Viscount Weymouth.
Viscount Kilsyth. |
Ds. Dartmouth.
Ds. Delawar.
Ds. Hunsdon.
Ds. Berkeley.
Ds. Cornwallis.
Ds. Halifax.
Ds. Gernsey.
Ds. Cowper.
Ds. Balmerino.
Ds. Blantyre. |
PRAYERS.
Message from H. C. with a Bill.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons,
by Mr. Serjeant Webb and others:
With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for rendering the
Proceedings upon Writs of Mandamus and Informations in the Nature of a Quo Warranto more speedy
and effectual; and for the more easy trying and determining the Rights of Offices and Franchises, in Corporations and Boroughs;" to which they desire the
Concurrence of this House.
Message from thence, for a Conference on the Bill for Preservation of Game.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons,
by Mr. Hervey and others:
To desire a Conference with this House, on the Subject-matter of the Amendment made by this House to
the Bill, intituled, "An Act for making the Act of
the Fifth Year of Her Majesty's Reign, for the better
Preservation of the Game, perpetual; and for making
the same more effectual."
To which the House agreed.
Then the Commons were called in; and told, "That
the Lords do agree to a Conference, as is desired;
and appoint it To-morrow, at One a Clock, in the
Painted Chamber."
Sir Lyon Pilkington versus Cuthbertson:
After hearing Counsel, upon the Petition and Appeal
of Sir Lyon Pilkington Baronet, from a Decree made in
the Court of Chancery, the Ninth Day of February
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seven, and a subsequent Order of the Nineteenth of January One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ten, in a Cause wherein the
Petitioner was Complainant, against Mary Cuthbertson
Widow, Defendant; and in a Cross Cause, wherein the
said Mary Cuthbertson was Complainant, against the Petitioner Defendant: As also upon the Answer of the
said Mary Cuthbertson put in to the said Appeal; and
due Consideration of what was offered thereupon:
Judgement affirmed, with Costs.
It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the
said Petition and Appeal of the said Sir Lyon Pilkington
shall be, and is hereby, dismissed this House; and that the
Decree and Order therein complained of shall be, and
are hereby, affirmed: And it is further Ordered, That
the said Sir Lyon Pilkington shall pay, or cause to be paid,
unto the said Mary Cuthbertson, the Sum of Twenty Pounds,
for her Costs.
Williams, a Negroe, Bill.
Whereas this Day was appointed, for the House to
be in a Committee on the Bill, intituled, "An Act for
enabling John Williams (a Free Negroe of the Island of
Jamaica), his Wife and Children (bred up in the Religion of the Church of England, and naturalized), to
be Witnesses in Civil Cases; and that no Slaves may
be Evidences against them; and that they, on all Occasions, in the said Island, and in other Her Majesty's
Plantations, may be tried by a Jury, as other Her Majesty's Subjects are to be tried:"
It is Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal
in Parliament assembled, That this House shall be put
into a Committee on the said Bill, on Wednesday next, at
Twelve a Clock.
Writs of Mandamus and Quo Warranto, Bill.
Hodie 1a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for
rendering the Proceedings upon Writs of Mandamus
and Informations in the Nature of a Quo Warranto
more speedy and effectual; and for the more easy
trying and determining the Rights of Offices and
Franchises, in Corporations and Boroughs."
Ordered, That the said Bill be read a Second Time
To-morrow, the First Business; and that the Judges of
Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench do then attend;
and that all the Lords be summoned.
Adjourn.
Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Sabbati, duodecimum diem instantis Maii, hora undecima
Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.